John S. Richardson

John Smythe Richardson (* February 29, 1828 in Sumter, South Carolina, † February 24, 1894 ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Richardson was born on the Bloom Hill Plantation in Sumter County. He attended a school in Cokesbury and then studied until 1850 at the South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina in Columbia. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1852 admitted to the bar he began in Sumter to work in his new profession.

During the Civil War, Richardson served as an officer in the army of the Confederate States. After the war he began a career in politics as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1865 and 1867 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, was nominated at the Samuel J. Tilden as a presidential candidate.

In 1878 he was the first electoral district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1879, the successor of Joseph Hayne Rainey. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two coherent legislative periods. After his time in the House of Representatives Richardson was employed 1884-1893 in Sumter County as a Master of equity. He died on February 24, 1894 at his estate " Shadyside " near Sumter.